It’s all so whimsical and innocent, bestowing this classic with a sweetness, humorousness, and memorableness that can’t be ignored.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 8, 2024

Contains one of the greatest set-pieces in American musicals.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 11, 2021

Synthetic outdoor backdrops look oddly out of place in some scenes, but the show happily brims with gusto and melody. Howard Keel and Jane Powell top the cast.

| Nov 5, 2019

Good tunes, humour, imaginative presentation and abounding vitality are welded together to make this film the most Memorable Musical of 1954.

| Jun 20, 2018

The songs are not classic and the cast is exuberant rather than charismatic, but Kidd's energetic choreography triumphs.

| Apr 9, 2012

A profoundly sexist and eminently hummable 1954 CinemaScope musical with some terrific athletic Michael Kidd choreography and some better-than-average direction by Stanley Donen.

| Apr 9, 2012

Thrillingly energetic dances on film.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 28, 2010

Donen's manipulation of spinning torsos and piston-pumping knees across Cinemascope sprawls is inventive everywhere

| Jan 3, 2010

This is a happy, hand-clapping, foot-stomping country type of musical with all the slickness of a Broadway show.

| May 16, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 27, 2007

This rather archly symmetrical movie musical is best seen as a dance-fest, with Michael Kidd's acrobatic, pas d'action choreography well complemented by ex-choreographer Donen's camera.

| Jun 24, 2006

Corny as heck.

| Original Score: B | Jun 15, 2006

Written directly for ther screen, MGM's popular musical benefits immensely from Stanley Donen's deft direction, Michael Kidd's dynamic choreography, and Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin's Oscar-winning score.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 17, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 27, 2005

The songs are knowingly corny and catchy as hell, the dancing is (quite rightly) renowned, the story is ludicrously sexist, and the whole film is just exceedingly watchable.

| Oct 10, 2004

...a big, brawling, rollicking movie that, old-fashioned or not, helped to open up the movie musical to widescreen singing and dancing.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 8, 2004

one of the greatest musicals, if not movies, of all time

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 10, 2004

A magical blend of the right story, a great score, and the astonishing choreography of Michael Kidd.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 30, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2003